Redknapp cools Twitter claims

17 October 2011 08:59

Harry Redknapp has laughed off claims that a Tweet from a fake Twitter account was the reason Jermain Defoe didn't start against Newcastle.

The Tottenham striker was introduced as a substitute at St James' Park and put Spurs 2-1 up before Shola Ameobi secured a 2-2 draw for the Magpies with a late equaliser.

Redknapp was asked after the game if he had seen the Tweet - confirmed by a Tottenham official to come from a fake account - which stated Defoe would start Sunday's clash but it is clearly a world in which he has no interest.

"I didn't see the twit, the tweet, because I can't work a tweeter," Redknapp said.

"I don't know what it is. I haven't got a clue what a Tweet is.

"It's beyond me all this Tweeting and Facebooking. I don't understand it as I live in another world to that so I don't know if he's Tweeted or not.

"In fact I couldn't care if he did or he didn't really.

"We used to talk to each other at one time and now we talk on computers and all that. I don't know what the world's coming to really."

Redknapp later joked during his press conference that Defoe was unsuccessfully trying to contact him on his phone.